[fpc-devel] Unit dependencies

[Adriaan van Os]

Sven Barth via fpc-devel wrote:

>     Another question. Has anybody considered running the external
>     assembly (e.g. on macOS) in a
>     separate process ? That would greatly reduce build times of large
>     projects.
> 
> 
> Ehm... The external assembly *is* run in a separate process, that's the 
> point of it being *external*. 

You are right, of course. What I mean is — is the compiler waiting for that process to finiish ? It 
would have to wait before starting the linking phase, but not before starting compiling other units.

Regards,

Adriaan van Os